http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060725/sftu071.html?.v=60 Along with those games, I think a few others have dropped (or will drop soon) to $20 (either also GH or just $20 games). These include Midnight Club 3, Harry Potter, Star Wars Battlefront 2, Need for Speed Underground, SSX On Tour, and Tony Hawk Underground 2 Remix (some of those were mentioned in the article). Your results may vary though since some of those were just confirmed to be $20 at 1 or 2 stores (seems like Best Buy or Toys-R-Us). Some of these include games I've already mentioned, but EB/GS and Bestbuy have dropped prices on some games: Finally, for the PS2 collection, it is being rumored that Shadow of the Colossus, Socom 3, Jak X, Ratchet Deadlock, and Sly 3 will be going GH soon (think I've seen SOTC in its GH packaging online). Seems like some of you guys were interested in cheap PSP games (I know I am), so I thought I'd post this.
The DS sold 20M worldwide, while that figure was NA-only. That said, DS is still ahead AFAIK, but the way that sentence was put together, it could read different ways. For example, it says something like "in the period since its launch." AFAIK, since the PSP has been out, it is the best selling next-gen handheld. Add on the 4-5 months the DS had (including the holidays) and the DS is on top. Marketing speech is awesome.
If the SFIII one is true, that would be shocking - it just came out and retailers around here have had trouble keeping it stocked. The Hot Shots golf game is a great buy at $20 if anybody is interested.
That GREATEST HITS crap has pissed me off ever since they brought out Gran Turismo 4 just a couple MONTHS after it had been out... either they want to make a quick buck or want to make us all PS buyers look silly. maybe both?
A lot of those game just came out (Exit and the Megaman games came out about the same time as SFIII, maybe some others too). I think they were all $25-$30 though (not sure about SF...thought so), so it wouldn't be too hard to go down another $5-$10 in retail price at one or two stores. Especially for SF, which probably didn't cost Capcom that much to make. I was thinking about getting it, but I think I'll hold off until later. I just recently got a couple of games (including Exit), so I'll probably play those for a while and get Hot Shots later in the year. It seems like it could be a lot of fun, especially on a portable. It does starting today. Unless you were trying to imply that the PSP doesn't have any good games (not saying you were but I've seen people react this way to the PSP GH news). AFAIK, the GH games have gotten good reviews and have sold pretty well (good sales are actually a requirement of sorts to be in this program…although they don’t have to sell well in some cases). In order to be a GH game on the PS2, I think it has to be out for at least 9 months (GT4 came out Feb 05 IIRC, and I think it went GH in March 06, so like 13 months there). It also sold like millions already. They wouldn't have dropped the price unless sales started to drop anyway, and that's probably what happened.
that was indeed what i was getting at, it seems most of the games have as well as the psp itself have been flops at least in terms of what sony normally sells. i'm sure this will boost sales though as people aren't so stingy when it comes to 20$ games.
The games will still make the system update - I'd guess. I always thought that homebrew is why the games didn't sell so well... Hot Shots Golf & Wipeout Pure are great, and Twisted Metal you can play against people anywhere in the world if you have a WiFi connection. Lumines and GTA are still my favorite PSP games.
AFAIK, games like Ridge Racer, Wipeout, Madden, NFS, SD vs Raw, SW: Battlefront, GTA, SOCOM, etc., have all sold pretty well on the PSP (IOW...not flops). Maybe something like MGA and Daxter have flopped to a degree, although the former might be for a good reason. I'm not sure what games you were implying might be flops. If you were expecting the PSP to dominate the handheld world (like the PS1 and PS2), then yeah, I guess it and its game have flopped. I'm not sure why anyone would realistically expect that to happen though, especially less than 2 years into its lifespan. Looking back at some of my posts prior to its launch, I seemed to think that it would be great if Sony could come close to competing with Nintendo and the DS (unless I missed some posts where I said otherwise), and I thought I was being pretty optimistic. Nintendo has started to pull away here lately, but I think it has been quite a competition so far (at least in NA and Europe). The GH stuff will help, as well as the PS1 downloads, a couple of future PSP titles, and maybe a pricecut ($150 should be easy to do at this point, although this is Sony), but at this point, the DSL and the future DS lineup will probably be too much to overcome (at least in terms of "winning the war").
Probably because the Sony Hype Machine (and the net fanboys that fuel it) made it seem that it would be so. I remember when the systems first launched, and everyone was like WTF two screens? about the DS and saying how the PSP would become the new handheld king. Ah, how time has changed things. Personally, I've always maintained that the two really shouldn't be compared, because they are so different in some very essential ways. But the net being what it is, and fanboys being what they are, I suppose the comparisons were inevitable. BTW, I noticed that at some EB/Gamestop stores the PSP games that are supposed to be GH aren't yet 20 bucks. Maybe goes into effect tomorrow?
The Sony Hype Machine will happen for everything (as well as the Nintendo Hype Machine and the Microsoft Hype Machine). MS (and the Xbox fans) acted like the 360 would do much better in Japan than the Xbox ever did, but so far, it has done much worse. But considering the circumstances, that shouldn't be a surprise. Heck, even the Gizmondo got some decent hype, and we know where that got it (sorry DaDakota). If you want to make predictions on how the PR people for each company react, then you're going to be wrong 95% of the time. For anyone that was looking at this situation without letting the hype be a distraction, this really shouldn't be a surprise. Sure, I guess the Sony/PSP fanboys ended up being wrong, but that's not surprising or saying much. Again, I thought I had some pretty optimistic expectations for it, and the it has pretty much met those expectations (if not far exceeded them). That's true. But as you said, comparisons were inevitable. As for when these go on sale, I don't know about stores offline, but I noticed that EBgames.com already has the games at $20 (probably a couple of other online retailers too).
The Gizmondo had hype? heheh...just kiddin' DD. And what you say about the Hype Machines is true, obviously. I do believe though that a large portion of the game market - the chunk that doesn't research things on the net regularly, keeps up to date with info, etc. - feeds off that Hype. I think it is a big part of modern gaming. You can't predict off of the PR, no...but a lot of people actually buy off what they hear. And the PSP/DS comparisons were very loud back then. I worked in retail for a long time going through school....and man, it is scary what people think they know from just rumors and gossip and hype. Crazier still when you realize they are putting their money behind it.
Yeah, that stuff is all true and I don't disagree about it. There was a lot of hype for the PSP, and I'm sure people bought into it. No doubt about it. My point was that for people that don't let that stuff affect their judgment (those who make realistic predictions), I don't see why they would expect the PSP to come out and dominate. I tried to wipe out all the fanboy predictions with the use of the word "realistically" in my original statement, but that might not have been clear. Basically, if an analyst or someone who follows this stuff had the expectations that the PSP would come out and dominate, I wouldn't understand their reasoning.
Don't forget that you can use the PSP to fight hell's minions from invading heaven...Let's see the DS do THAT!
I plan on getting one of the two soon, I just don't know which one. Which is better, the PSP or the DS? keep in mind I don't plan on watching movies, or crap, I just want good games. DS has my favorite handheld game of all time, Advance Wars, but PSP will get more of the mass market games, and this greatest hits stuff is an automatic turn on since I'm always a few months behind on new games unless I really want it.
Get the one with the games you like. The DS has a vast majority of the great games found on handhelds (with more on the way), but the PSP does provide some titles and genres not well-represented on the DS (sports, fighting games, shooters, racers, etc.). Tell me what other types of games you like (besides mass market) and maybe I give a more specific answer. Otherwise, I'd probably go with a DS, although you can't go wrong with either one.
